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Posted by George Dance on 05/09/07 05:26
On May 9, 12:58 am, Diana <Diana_of_the_h...@excite.com> wrote:
> On May 9, 12:28 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> > On May 9, 12:15 am, sirblob <sirbl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > you can dance
> > > you can jive
> > > having the time of your life
> > > see that girl
> > > watch that scene
> > > diggin the dancing queen
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> > > every time i saw tv
> > > or i read the newspaper
> > > there were all these stories
> > > about stevie and the raper
> > > the zercon connection
> > > and the peter reich case
> > > the loonie land times
> > > with their budget in disgrace
> > > i asked myself
> > > what am I to believe
> > > when the cancer is a killer
> > > john player wins a lead
> > > with masters of the universe
> > > and designer death
> > > they all be talkin
> > > about princess di's dress
> > > yes, this is a very nice dress
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> > > when i was younger,
> > > i knew just who to hate
> > > from the teachers in our classroom
> > > to the leaders of our state
> > > i've registered to vote
> > > this pleasant land's free
> > > so I took the intercity
> > > for democracy and me
> > > i knocked at the door
> > > but they did na let me in
> > > so I kicked it down
> > > and I walked right in
> > > she was standing at the bar
> > > while healy cut his truss
> > > question time, make it work
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> > > dancing queen
> > > queen
> > > dancing queen
> > > oh yeah
> > > you can jive
> > > see that girl
> > > dancing queen
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> > > i just want to know
> > > who's in control
> > > is it you or god
> > > or the bloke down the dole
> > > her answers were shate
> > > but I dinna give up
> > > so I went to the law
> > > but it dint even wake up
> > > so I went to the palace
> > > that good queen bess
> > > she asked me to dance
> > > said she'd like a rest
> > > boy d'll be king
> > > "i'd love to get the throne"
> > > here's the keys to the castle
> > > your in control
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> > > dancing queen
> > > proud and sweet
> > > only seventeen
> > > "wot about charles?"
> > > "i like charles"
> > > dancing queen
> > > feel the beats on the tabourine
> > > oh, yeah!
> > > "rock, I've got the kingdom"
> > > having the time of her life
> > > "you want a ?"
> > > "what you talking about, do i get to go home first?"
> > > "? me an rock"
> > > "i want a lot of money"
> > > ?
> > > "have you ever met abba?"
> > > "I'd love to meet abba"
> > > "they used to be one of my favorite groups"
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> > > god save the queen!
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> > > You can da
> > > you can ji
> > > having the time of her life
> > > see that girl
> > > dancing queen
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> > > god save the queen, yeah, just destroy!!!
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> > > fuck that! Let's listen to the jams!
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> > Yes!! Can't say I like all (or even most) of it, but the concept, and
> > the blending of the song lyrics with your own material (least I think
> > that part is yurs?) is dead on. (Even if you wrote none of it, it's
> > still an original creation in the way you've put it all together.)
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> > This is exactly the way to use others' material to create something
> > new. It reminded me of an artist I read about in a novel this week,
> > who painted reproductons of the old masters, chopped them up with an
> > axe, and glued the pieces back together in new ways.
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> > Could be you've found your niche/groove.
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> "The JAMs' primary instrument was the digital sampler with which they
> would plagiarise the history of popular music, cutting chunks from
> existing works and pasting them into new contexts, underpinned by
> rudimentary beatbox rhythms and overlayed with Drummond's raps, of
> social commentary, esoteric metaphors and mockery."
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF-
Well, I can't laugh at anyone else being taken in by sirblob anymore,
now that he (or she) has caught me, too.
At least sirblob admitted it. And also explained why he's doing it -
for copyleft purposes. Though it's not the copyright violations that
really bother me, but the plagiarism - the lack of any originality, of
any sense of him (or her), in the work.
One quote from that wiki article sounds like me, a half hour or so
ago, when I first read this piece: "It's hard to understand what it
feels like to come across something you believe to be totally new."
And then to find out it isn't new at all ... bummer.
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